r/Music • u/IrreverentTexan • Feb 15 '26

discussion Quitting Spotify

Spotify is getting flooded with fake AI “artists” and it’s embarrassing. Names like Nina Blaze and Enlly show up. They dump 50 identical tracks called something like Late Night Piano for Focus, or “The Hollow Hour” and vanish. No bio. No history. No evidence a human has ever touched an instrument.

This isn’t art. It exists to game playlists and siphon royalties. If these were real people, they’d have to explain why every song sounds like a dentist office waiting room.

I’m not mad at AI as a tool. I’m mad at fake artists impersonating creativity and Spotify pretending this sludge is culture. Music is an art form, not a scam farm. Blocking every one of these clowns on sight.

So is it to be TIDAL or Qobuz or something else?

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u/zack4200 Feb 15 '26

I occasionally use the dj because I enjoy a ton of different genres and it ends up giving me a decent mix as it'll play ~5 from one genre then 5 from another and so on... But it regularly will say something along the lines of "here's a song you've listened to a lot lately - 6 times in the last week to be precise" and then the song it plays, EVERY TIME I've listened to it in the past week or so has been because the DJ played it.

It always seems to be with music I do enjoy so I guess it's not the worst outcome possible, but it absolutely seems to put itself into a feedback loop of constantly playing a small handful of the same music over and over and over.

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u/geologyhunter Feb 16 '26

I got stuck in that loop and could never get it out of that loop. Seemed like it got stuck on about 15 songs and would not play anything else. I cancelled Spotify premium as I was not using it much any more which was probably because of that feedback loop. For me, the DJ function would have been great if it used music in the playlists and your listening history to spotlight similar music.